The big old brick building stands along the train tracks, about half a mile from the Memorial Art Gallery. The Hungerford, the building’s name, is painted large across the top. The sign - a memory of this town’s past glory...
When I moved from India to the US over two years ago I told myself I was not choosing one over the other. My heart and my mind now had to be big enough to exist like I live in...
http://www.livemint.com/2011/01/14211359/Hammer8217s-history-gone-i.html The last open outcry auction of tea will take place any day now. By the time the next crop arrives, the gavel may well be history Aniek Paul Kolkata: Banging the gavel on transactions running into millions of rupees...
http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2011/01/indias_restive_gorkhas OF INDIA’S million mutinies, the one still roiling the hill town of Darjeeling and its surrounding tea-growing areas in the north of the state of West Bengal is a long-running one. Back in 1907, the region’s residents, dominated by...
http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/agriculture/article1063434.ece Erratic weather conditions coupled with low productivity has led Darjeeling tea producers to close the year 2010 with a low crop of only around 7 million kg which is among the lowest in history. There are 87 tea estates...
http://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/article697233.ece Production of Darjeeling tea is set to be lower this year with erratic weather conditions cutting into the crop-size of one of India 's best-known commodities. The Darjeeling tea industry, which reported a 12 per cent lower crop between...
An interview of Ashok Lohia, the owner of largest number of Darjeeling tea estates, published today in the Economic Times. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/commodities/Scanty-rains-may-cut-Darjeeling-tea-output/articleshow/5923534.cms The 58-year-old Ashok Lohia took up production of Darjeeling tea in 1988 with two estates — Chamong and Pussimbing....
It is something we had always noticed: everybody has a different experience of the same tea. (Me and my wife no longer squabble over our different opinions about tea). Our tea tasting notes that we publish are nothing more than rough sketchs, which you could...
http://www.hindustantimes.com/rssfeed/business/Unusually-hot-dry-weather-hit-premium-Darjeeling-tea/Article1-532282.aspx The unusually hot weather and lack of rainfall in the West Bengal hills have ruined the first-flush Darjeeling tea crop. "There has been no rainfall since October 2009, creating a drought-like condition. It has damaged the first flush," said...
